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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is good. Cliff rescues are possible again wherever there is a trained crew.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Another issue that arose, which we have discussed in the past, and I am not from a maritime background, is that certain vessels require certain thresholds of training. If one has not reached that benchmark, one cannot take a vessel out beyond the harbour area. Is it the case in any of the Coast Guard stations at present that the station has a nice, shiny, new vessel but it cannot be taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That one was resolved and we were made aware of that. However, on a national basis, is there a case where there is key equipment available but the crew cannot take it to water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Are those hours sufficient? What I mean, and Mr. Colin Murray could dispute this and I have to bow to his knowledge of it, is that I was shown a RIB vessel some time ago and I was told that if one was in the Irish Naval Service one could be weeks or months getting trained to go out on it, but that in the Irish Coast Guard, where training is more limited, one is expected to go out and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a final question and perhaps Mr. Cahill will come in on this as well. I do not think any of the committee members are from a maritime background, unless there is something about them that I do not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I like looking out at the sea anyway. One thing has struck me all along. We were receiving information and asking questions. That is our job as public representatives. However, the core issue I kept returning to was that morale was seen to be low, divisions were seen in some units and there seemed to be a separation between central management and volunteer units. Some people also said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is it now a happy organisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Months ago when all this emerged, another colleague from Clare, Deputy Carey, and I received floods of emails from the county and we addressed them in this forum. However, even as that meeting was taking place, I recall that my telephone was beeping. There were Coast Guard units around the country watching proceedings here, and they are probably tuned in today as well, and they were sending...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Brexit has served to remind us in County Clare and along the western seaboard how geographically peripheral we are in the Continent of Europe. It is obvious now that we are a long way from Dublin, but we are also a long way from Britain and the countries on mainland Europe. In 2015, a national aviation policy was launched which is now totally defunct and no longer relevant as we come out...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: With regard to the health aspect of this agenda, I wish to raise the incessant overcrowding and trolley usage at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, week in, week out. There is yet another inquiry, and I expect its outcome will again indicate that far too many people are funnelled through the same hospital system. When the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, visited the hospital on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [22934/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [22933/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: In his contribution, the Taoiseach referred to DEIS and the overhaul that system had about six or seven weeks ago. It was positive and progressive. These reviews happen every few years and the last one occurred in 2017 or 2018. Therefore, the model the Department of Education uses to determine deprivation and the need to intervene in a school context is based on Pobal and census figures...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [22932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the outcome of the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22649/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the €200 energy credit is payable to homeowners who live above or adjacent to their business premises and whose electricity for domestic and commercial use all comes through the same metering system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if clarification will be provided regarding the electricity costs emergency benefit scheme in relation to property owners who maintain apartment buildings with multiple units operate a single electricity account for the building (details supplied). [22685/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that he proposes to better support the ailing post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23003/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department will advance plans for a suite of new government services to be available offline via the nation’s post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23004/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (10 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an outline of the way that procedures (details supplied) have been undertaken at the constituted Irish Coast Guard station at Doolin, County Clare. [22851/22]